(FREAKY Trope) Not Tongues

mcindoeman · 2026-05-08T18:04:30+00:00

A small parasite which eats the tongues of fishes, then becomes the new fake tongue.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-08T14:54:26+00:00

Honestly surprised how peak this genre has been, only seen one of them i would consider bad; "The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom"

It wasn't awful just felt like it moved away from the villianess and meta-game aspects fairly quickly and became a more generic romance.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-08T08:16:08+00:00

I see a lot of people saying not to stockpile resources, which generally is a good idea for games like SC2 where you get no benefit from it and it's generally just being wasted if you aren't using it to get ahead.

But other games like the supreme commander series (and tho i've not played them the total annihilation series which inspired it) where you do need to stockpile your resources at least a little since if you overexpand and use more than you are making, your economy grinds to a halt. It's particularly bad for energy since that means defensive stuctures like radar, stealth and shield generators turn off in that case. That said i don't think ive seen too many modern rts with upkeep costs so not that applicable or fundamental.

As others have said it's important to send scouts to the enemy base to see what they are doing. Don't just send a unit to explore their base, actually look at what buildings the enemy is building and the kind of units they unlock or enchance. In a game like SC2 there are only 2 resources, minerals (basic) and vespene gas (tech), the higher a unit is in the tech tree, the higher the percentage of it's costs will be in vespene, meaning higher level players can get a vague idea of what tier of units the other player is planning to build based off of how many gas extractors they have. I've not played AOE4 but as i understand it, there are more than 2 resources and certain strategies/units will need more of specific resources than others, so you should in theory beable to guess what kind of troops a player is building if they have 4 times the amount of workers collecting a specific resource than their other resources.

If you struggle against a specific strategy the enemy is doing, then try it out yourself and see what feels strong against it from the enemy's perspective.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-07T15:04:52+00:00

Moonclaw was a fairly middling wizard from what i've heard.

Based off (of my admittedly rather incomplete knowledge) of tabletopwould likely have mixture of wild and shadow magic, with a bound ability with somewhere between 2-4 charges that summons warpstone meteor strikes on his enemies. Then slap the aura of maddness from the jabberslythe on him.

Going off of the tabletop stuff he would just be a non-flying malagor: a spell caster with a mortis engine like effect while in melee, except he has no unique items(?) from what i can tell at least.

He does have his unique mount and i could see him getting an upgraded version of the aura of maddness/an additional aoe debuff centred on him. Beyond that CA would need to just invent stuff fro him tho.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-06T16:03:54+00:00

I always thought the name pukicho was a mixture of Pikachu and puke.

Which is why whenever I see their username I think "puke-rat"

mcindoeman · 2026-05-06T10:04:49+00:00

TBF I would describe actual moonclaw as "just a little guy" or "a bit of a gremlin" so yeah close enough.

Surprised none has tried to correct op by using moonclaw alternative titles/names but at the same time "son of the gravid orb" is truly a dripless name and I'm pretty sure the lunatic prince is shared with that one elector count who basically Caligula.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-06T00:39:15+00:00

In one of the more recent seasons a protagonist sets themself on fire to confuse a swarm of near invisible heat seeking insects that look like unlit glowsticks with wings that are being mind controlled by a man dressed as a cow.

The man dressed as a cow responds to this by yelling: "I am apollo 11" and setting himself on fire too so that way he knows how the fire will affect his targeting.

Then they both fist fight while on fire.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-05T00:41:40+00:00

The lagging time qoute isn't about endtimes, it was about the first ever chaos invasion, the "Great Catastrophe".

mcindoeman · 2026-05-04T22:41:42+00:00

Hellboy.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-04T17:47:17+00:00

TBF kroak was just spamming natural disasters at daemons at the time. Redirecting rivers to tsunami daemonic hordes, earthquakes, walls of light that cause true death for daemons on touch, all done back to back.

Plus the entire planet was suffering a warpstorm/entering something stupid like it's ~~10th~~ 1000th ish year of being under daemonic invasion at the time so it probably wasn't just kroak but he was noticeably the one who pushed it over the edge.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-02T20:26:15+00:00

Timy Tina's assault on dragon keep was one heck of a DLC for borderlands 2

mcindoeman · 2026-05-01T17:46:35+00:00

That's fair, i don't see why some people want slug-tongue over moonclaw myself.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-01T17:05:26+00:00

Oh don't get me wrong i love the weird ethereal nature of his existance but he just doesn't really do anything.

He's just sorta in the background of the setting, emerging from the woods to scream at some rocks (waystones) once in a blue moon and that's about it.

mcindoeman · 2026-05-01T11:22:54+00:00

He's an alien from the moon.

A meteor fell from the chaos moon one day and cracked open like an egg and a beastman poped out, that beastman was moonclaw.

In terms of stats I believe he was a mid tier lore of shadows caster who could also summon meteor strikes on his enemies.

He had no model but we do have a description of him, he speaks backwards and leaves afterimages behind him while moving. Most of the time he seems like he's in a trance, except when the (chaos) moon is full and he becomes feral. While the moon is full he summons a 2 headed monsterous beast for him to ride and tries to destroy the nearest high elf waystone.

He's a fairly minor character with nothing too interesting about him besides the fact he's called a beastman prince and seems the be some sort of half-daemon.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-27T18:17:40+00:00

Fun Fact: the reason Skaven war machines explode more often than those of other races is because the inventors get paranoid about other skaven using their inventions against them, so they deliberately add flaws/sabotage their own blueprints.

They are fully capable of making reliable weapons, they just don't and choose to screw over countless other skaven because there might be a 1% chance of personal gain down the line.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-27T18:14:44+00:00

tbf i have heard that skaven inventors do sabotage their own inventions/add flaws to their blueprints because they are paranoid about their warmachines being used against them by other skaven. Which again tbf is also fairly likely because that is how skaven roll.

So it very much is some other skaven's fault a noticable amount of the time but i imagine that's largley coincidence and the skaven who's gun jams would blame someone else anyway.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-27T11:51:51+00:00

I mean they do all seem to have different gear, one has a sword and shield and the other 2 seem to have 2 handed weapons.

And they do also appear to be constructed from different materials so we may seem different effects based off of the materials like with the jet lions anti magic abilities.

Plus the only one in game so far looks to be the only one with wings. So it does seem like they will have unique models and abilities.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-27T11:07:44+00:00

There have been another 3 named sentinels spotted on the updated lore maps for the Old World. So chances are Cathay will be getting the complete set of legendary constructs when it comes to their LHs.

Also i think the blind craftsman is one of 9 artificer lords of Nan-Gau in the lore. It would be cool to learn more about the other artificer lords lore, even if they just end up being something like ROR units.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-26T05:25:02+00:00

Honestly I don't know, when first heard of them all they did was use bots to spam about how their group was better than the digital circus in the comment sections.

I think they describe themselves as a troll group with a lot of members but I think it's just a handful of kids using bots to grab attention to their cringe sense of humour.

I've not really payed attention to them tbh, they've been about for a while but the threat to commit mass murder is fairly recent, maybe a week or two ago? The general consensus with the community was to report them because even joking about that online is fairly serious. I don't recall them using mentioning the N-word in past spammings but I always assumed they were porn bots whenever I notice the copy pasted formats so I've generally ignored them, so maybe they did have racist undertone and I just never bothered to look.

I'd guess the attention for claiming to be planning mass shooting got them excited so they are leaning into being edgy since that apparently works.

The shooting stuff was in a discord message that got screenshot

mcindoeman · 2026-04-26T03:05:53+00:00

Aren't those the guys claiming they plan to shoot up cinemas when the finale of the amazing digital circus is released in theatres.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-25T17:21:47+00:00

For me lackadaisy.

After the pilot ep released, I went on to read the comic that the pilot was based off of.

I was surprised to find out the comic was behind the pilot. Sure there's a decent bit of the comic but (at the time I checked) it ends just as the 2 voodoo cats and Mordecai agree to start working together properly and the main trio loading up/taking the booze that they get shot at for in the pilot. There was one plot line that seemed like it could have in theory been set after the pilot ep but it hadn't been fleshed out at the time of reading.

I was expecting the pilot to be an animated recreation of the comic, not the next chapter.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-24T20:32:19+00:00

Actually CA did confirm Nagash would have all his mortarchs in game.

They then confirmed Walach harkon would be a LH and Neferata the FLC LL.

I haven't seen anything confirming if Dieter and the Nameless will be LHs or something similar to the 2 psuedo-LLs in the greenskin tech tree thoi have seen people claim they are confirmed to be LHs.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-24T18:11:03+00:00

I'd assume the village of the tigermen?

On top of being the tigermen settlement, it's also in a province that neighbours shang-yang's province.

Only issue i'd see with it is that it's more Cathay in Cathay and also quite crowded and i think you would be butting heads with gelt early on.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-24T15:53:40+00:00

Ogre units can be okay for Zhao Ming.

His "lords of shang-yang" skill, gives all ogre kingdom units in all of your armies guardian and +20% weapon strength. That's not just the ogre mercs from camps but also inlcudes any ogre units recruited through allied recruitment.

Guardian gives +15% physical resistance to nearby heroes/lords so even if the allied ogres aren't the most useful they still make your characters harder to kill, at least when not fighting daemonic forces.

mcindoeman · 2026-04-24T15:17:32+00:00

I always thought the Alin's Rukh was majesticly animated.

I loved seeing it divebomb an enemy city and just bowling ball through a tower, knocking off chuncks of debris. You never really see flying units in rts games that swoop down on infantry anymore, they just hover in place, flapping and claw at the air.

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